I've spent years working as a Technical SEO consultant, helping businesses improve their website performance. And for years, I dealt with the same frustration over and over again.
The Problem I Couldn't Ignore
Every client engagement started the same way. I'd need to set up monitoring - Real User Monitoring here, synthetic testing there, uptime checks somewhere else, and Core Web Vitals tracking from yet another provider. Five tools. Five dashboards. Five logins. Five invoices.
The costs added up fast. The context switching was exhausting. And explaining to clients why they needed accounts with multiple providers just to understand their website's health? That conversation never got easier.
I kept thinking: why isn't there one place that does all of this?
Building What I Needed
In 2024, I stopped waiting for someone else to solve this problem. With 12+ years of development experience and deep knowledge of what website monitoring actually requires, I started building VitalSentinel - the monitoring platform I wished existed when I started my consulting career.
The mission was simple: bring together everything you need to monitor a website into one dashboard, at a price that doesn't require an enterprise budget.
No more juggling tools. No more fragmented data. No more paying premium prices for basic functionality.
What VitalSentinel Does
VitalSentinel combines six monitoring tools and three analytics integrations into a single platform:
Real User Monitoring tracks how your website actually performs for real visitors. You see Core Web Vitals, page load times, and performance data segmented by device, browser, country, and connection speed.
CrUX Monitoring pulls your Chrome User Experience Report data automatically. This is the exact data Google uses to evaluate your site for the page experience ranking signal. No more guessing - you see what Google sees.
Synthetic Monitoring runs Lighthouse audits on a schedule from multiple locations. Catch performance regressions before your users do. Get alerted when scores drop.
Uptime Monitoring checks your site every minute from locations around the world. Know the moment something goes wrong, with SSL certificate monitoring included.
Robots.txt Monitoring watches for changes to your robots.txt file. Accidental changes can devastate your SEO - now you'll know immediately if something changes.
Indexing Monitoring tracks how many of your pages Google has indexed over time. Spot indexing issues before they become ranking problems.
Web Analytics gives you privacy-first traffic insights without cookies. No consent banners needed. GDPR compliant by design.
Google Search Console Dashboard brings your GSC data into VitalSentinel so you can see search performance alongside your monitoring data.
Google Analytics Dashboard does the same for GA4 - one place to see everything.
Who It's For
I initially built VitalSentinel for myself - to solve my own daily frustrations. But I believe it can help others facing the same challenges:
Website owners who want to understand their site's health without becoming monitoring experts. Developers who need to debug performance issues and prove improvements. SEO professionals who need to track Core Web Vitals and catch technical issues. Agencies managing multiple client sites who are tired of the tool sprawl.
The interface is intentionally simple. You shouldn't need a manual to understand if your website is performing well.
Honest Pricing
Every plan includes all features. You're paying for capacity - how many domains and how much data - not for functionality locked behind higher tiers.
There's a free plan to try everything out. Paid plans start at $49/month and scale based on how many sites you need to monitor.
Try It Today
VitalSentinel is now in public beta. Sign up for free, add your first domain, and see your monitoring data within minutes.
I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback. This platform exists because I needed it - and I want to make sure it solves these problems for you too.
Let's make website monitoring simple.
Written by
Martin Stepanek
Technical SEO & Web Performance Consultant
After years of juggling multiple monitoring tools and paying for fragmented solutions, I decided to build VitalSentinel - bringing together RUM, synthetic testing, uptime monitoring, and analytics in one place.